DeCadia Code by Jonathan Yanez EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Jonathan Yanez
- Language: English
- Genre: Gaslamp Fantasy
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“What’s the story with that one–the girl?”
The slave master on deck nineteen of the airship pursed thin lips as he
stared at her. His eyes squinted against the harsh rays of the midday sun.
The slave master’s mind added up the mental ingredients needed to concoct
a story that would bring him top dollar for his newly captured slave.
“Ahhhh…the fiercest female pirate of the sea,” he spat more than spoke,
each syllable flying from his lips. “We bartered for this one from a galleon.
Said they ran into an entire ship of them, they did. They fought tooth and
bone until the last one. Only caught her because she was rendered
unconscious.”
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Val held her tongue as the seller and purchaser’s eyes moved across her
body. From beneath a curtain of filthy black strands, she met their stares
head on. More than anything, she wanted to skip free from her bonds. She
wanted to cross the distance that separated her from them and tear both their
throats from their stupid necks. Skill was not holding her back. It was the
promise of something far greater than bloodlust that kept her in check. It
was the promise of answers to questions she’d been seeking since birth. If
she was going to have a chance at all, she needed to be bought.
The man inquiring about her made his way down the row of slaves.
Every slave secured with interlinked chains to both their hands and feet
made him bold in his proximity. He stunk of rum and tobacco as he stood in
front of her, weighing her worth. “I’ll give you ten bits, no more.”
So it began. The slave master hobbled to his customer and product.
Even before he opened his mouth, Val knew this was just the beginning of a
long discussion. Bartering among pirates was an art; even what some would
call a pastime.
“Rob me right to me face, would ye?” the slaver snapped, outraged.
“She’s in top shape, this one. Look at ‘er arms. Bigger than even mine or
yours. Ye’d get years worth of work out of ‘er.”
The Captain eyed her again. Finally, he asked her, “The story this rusty
slaver would have me believe about you, is it true?”
Behind the Captain, the slaver nodded with vigorous motions of his
oversized head. Val had to position this just right. The two men were so
eager to have the upper hand in the deal; they’d been blind as to who was
actually manipulating the scene.
“No,” Val said with a steady voice. “He found me drunk in an alley and
kidnapped me.” She paused as the slaver’s face reddened and he closed the
distance. A strike was inevitable, maybe even more than one. “But he’s
right to think I’m a warrior. Even with these chains I could break his nose if
I chose.”
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